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Prudentia (Prudence) from Los Honores

Presumably after a design by Bernard van Orley (Netherlandish, c. 1492-1542) and unidentified artistsLinkedCulture matchlcp-1df5a7dd5259

Date: 1525-1532
Medium: Wool and silk; slit, dovetailed, and double interlocking tapestry weave Warp: Count: 7–8 warps per cm; wool: S-ply of three Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.5–1.0 mm Weft: Count: varies from 16 to 32 wefts per cm; wool: S-ply of two Z-spun elements; diameters: 0.4–1.0 mm; silk: S-ply of two Z-twisted elements (maybe replacement wefts); diameters: 0.4–0.9 mm. Right half of piece was rewoven.
Culture: Flanders
Department: Textiles
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 24631

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Credit line: Gift of Col. C. Michael Paul
Provenance: Cardinal Érard de la Marck, Prince-Bishop of Liège (died 1538), from 1525/32 to 1538; by descent to his godson, Robert III de la Marck, Count of Arenberg (died 1544); by descent to his sister, Countess Marguerite de la Marck, Princess of Arenberg (died 1599), given to her son, Robert de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg and Barbançon (died 1614); sold to his brother, Charles de Ligne, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot (died 1616), 1602; by descent to his son Philippe Charles, Prince of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot and Croy (died 1640); by descent to his son, Philippe François, Duke of Arenberg (died 1674); probably by descent to his brother Charles-Eugène, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Croy (died 1681); probably by descent to his son Philippe-Charles-François, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Croy (died 1691); probably by descent to his son Leopold-Philippe, Prince and Duke of Arenberg, Duke of Aarschot and Croy (died 1754) and his wife Marie-Françoise Pignatelli, Princess of Bisaccia and Contess of Egmont (died 1766); probably by descent to their son, Charles-Marie-Raymond, Duke of Arenberg and Aarschot (died 1778); probably by descent to his son, Louis-Engelbert, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1820); probably by descent to his son, Prosper-Louis, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1861); probably by descent to his son, Engelbert-Auguste, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (d. 1875); by descent to his son Engelbert-Marie, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1949); probably by descent to his son, Engelbert-Charles, Duke of Arenberg, Aarschot and Meppen, Prince of Recklinghausen (died 1974); sold, Sotheby’s, London, Duke of Meppen sale, October 17, 1958, lot 140; probably to Perez and Company (dealers), London; sold Galerie Fisher, Lucerne, lot 428, June 21-27, 1960; Wildenstein and Company (dealers), New York, before 1965: sold to Col. C. Michael Paul (died 1980), New York, as of 1965; given to the Art Institute, 1965.

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Object type: AAT300014063

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